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Threads records indications of conversations and events important to Explorers Foundation, because somehow pertinent to the emergence of Freeorder. If something in one of these interests you (beyond following the links provided), please contact us. Everything here has something to do with something our own visible region of the freeorder network is involved in.
 
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Explorers and Freeorder
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Explorers & freeorder — what’s good for explorers within each of us and among us. Explorers — everyone with strong imagination, curiosity, wonder, initiative, compassion; lovers of aspects of the world who endeavor to do something with and for what they love — with persistence, imagination, and integrity.
“You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose —with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.” ~ James Stockdale [found on Patrick Byrne’s Deep Capture
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freeorder : the vision and concept guiding Explorers Foundation
 
The word freeorder welds together free & order to ensure that never again will the two concepts be thought to be in opposition to one another.
freeorder expresses the idea that orders arising from freedom work best for all of us who wish to use our full powers of imagination, reason, and action in pursuit of happiness and in service to people and things we love.
More extensive description of freeorder •••
 
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Definitions of freeorder:
• What’s good for explorers, within each of us and among us.
• A balance among designed and spontaneous orders that serves quest.
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The conjecture implied by the second definition is that Hayek’s insights into kinds of order are useful in thought and productive in action and will remain so as the world of freeorder evolves.
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The word quest indicates an aesthetics guided pattern of explorations. The romantic implications of the word are fundamental. The emergence of freeorder, within each of us and among us depends on fierce balances of romantic idealism and ruthless rationality.
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A third definition: freeorder names something needed by free people, within each of them and among them. This definition poses a question, the answers to which point to exits leading out of our current distress.
 
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How Explorers Foundation can be simultaneously liberal and conservative.
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We are liberal (in the original and future meaning) in that we are for the freedom of every individual to imagine, think, act, and collaborate; and we are conservative to the extent that what we seek to conserve is exactly that same freedom. Such conservation of liberty requires saying “no” to some visible good things, and thereby protecting essential but invisible good things.
 
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Freeorder Bridge 0.95 ••• version 0.95
Freeorder Bridge: from here to there ••• version 0.95 — a five page article (pdf) about how we will cross a seemingly impossibly wide strait. The metaphor of a suspension bridge is used to begin discussion of a centuries old chain of insights and actions that have enabled and will continue to enable the emergence of freeorder.
 
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Weavers of freeorder
Weavers of freeorder are pattern finders, thinkers, artists, entrepreneurs, connection makers who work for all who discover that their home is Open Network.
Open Network names a freeorder comprised of and arising from all aspects of the world in which an explorer of sovereign spirit may rejoice. It is old. No one invented it.
freeorder is a balance among designed and spontaneous orders that serves quest.
Quest is an aesthetics governed pattern of explorations in course of which resonance grows.
Resonance is the expectation of magical flow, an emergent awareness arising from a fusing, in present action, of curiosity, intensity, sensitivity, integrity, and wonder.
These capabilities of human beings are the reason why Open Network came into being, why it continues to exist, and why it is inextinguishable.
 
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Hayek, on order, and how freeorder connects his “kinds of order” with quest
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🔹 The word order is fundamental:
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F. A. Hayek, in Volume I, Chapter Two, "Cosmos and Taxis", of Law, Legislation and Liberty (University of Chicago, 1973), suggests this definition of the word "order":
"By 'order' we shall throughout describe a state of affairs in which a multiplicity of elements of various kinds are so related to each other that we may learn from our acquaintance with some spatial or temporal part of the whole to form correct expectations concerning the rest, or at least expectations which have a good chance of proving correct."
"Taxis", as in "taxidermy" the deliberate ordering of the skin of animals. Cosmos = Greek for "natural order"; Taxis = Greek for "designed order."
This is a brilliant chapter and the origin of my work on freeorder.
Hayek's brilliance manifested itself in seeing that there is a third kind of order, sort of between "natural" and "designed". Those orders are "the results of human action but not of human design" and so have been called both "natural" and "designed" leading to endless confusion and discussions that are never resolved.
In such discussions the word freeorder is helpful.
This way of thinking about order becomes especially interesting when linked to the idea of optimizing quest, "an aesthetics governed pattern of explorations". Hayek did not do that, but it could be said to be implied in his work. I have made it explicit.
The word "governed" here means "highly influenced by" rather than "determined in entirety."
 
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This diagram from Legatum Institute ••• illustrates Explorers Foundation’s relationship with the other parts of the double star system to which we belong. Each such double star casts new light on its orbiting planets. With multiple well capitalized ∮forge the evolution of Freeorder may happen fast enough to outrun disasters. “There is not a moment to be lost.” —Jack Aubrey •••
 
Each month of Threads is now available separately: https://leifsmith.substack.com
 
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sooner or later to be added
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Scalar energy, Dr. Michaels, Dr. Tennant
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Shearmur’s Popper Conference
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Two residential libraries - we are looking for more
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Parties of No Party
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Ralston College
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https://mailchi.mp/ralston/live-event-alan-charles-kors-on-voltaire-15888259?e=eeae833631
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Monetary Metals: Valaurum gold lease
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voltaire . England . france . smallpox . letters, death . adoption … Thailand . princess . bhakti . mRNA vaccines . Gulf Energy Development
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Christy Borth’s book
 
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June 2023 - threads of freeorder
 
The Gods Send Thread for the Web Begun
Andrew Carnegie to us
from an ancient Greek source
 
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Joseph Frazier Wall, writes of Carnegie’s last home, built in New York City:
In his magnificent library-study on the first floor, seated at a roll top desk so huge that it had had to be constructed inside the room, Carnegie, his feet barely able to touch the floor, would sit, contemplating how best to dispose of his wealth. All around him, carved into the wood paneling of the walls, were the slogans that had inspired him throughout his life: high above the mantle of the fireplace, "Let There Be Light," and directly below that the words which he had first seen as a young man in the Stoke's Library in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, and which he had vowed would some day be in a library of his:
He that cannot reason is a fool,
He that will not is a bigot,
He that dares not is a slave.
Running around the walls of the room like a frieze carved out of Poor Richard's Almanac were the words: "The Kindom of Heaven is Within You," "The Gods Send Thread For The Web Begun," "All Is Well Since All Grows Better," "The Aids To A Nobel Life Are All Within," and "Thine Own Reproach Alone Do Fear." It was difficult to be other than noble in such a room.
Andrew Carnegie, by Joseph Frazier Wall, Oxford University Press, 1970, University of Pittsburgh Press edition of 1989, page 857. A magnificent work, and an inspiration for the creation of the Office for Open Network, Denver, Colorado (1975-2000). -ls
 
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“The ‘I’ in BIPOC: Not all Native Americans are leftist political activists” ••• Sherman Alexie
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“I’d argue that leftist political activists are only a small percentage of the Native demographic. I would posit that the basic Native political identity is ethnocentric, mainstream Democrat, capitalist, socially moderate, remarkably magnanimous, and only intermittently passionate. In other words, the Native American world is very…American.”
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“After all, who has more reason to be contemptuous of the United States government than an Indian? It makes a certain amount of political sense that an Indian, especially a reservation Indian, might choose to become a small government libertarian or an anti-government right winger.”
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“Indian tribes are land-based and have (tenuous) control over vast resources. And they have complex constitutional rights that sometimes go beyond what even privileged Americans possess.”
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The Catawba General Council Approves Digital Economic Zone in Catawba Lands •••
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https://catawbacorps.com
 
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May 2023 - threads of freeorder
 
Beethoven 9 & Mahler 3 - both start with ferocious strength, cold and hard, as if a god is speaking, possibly an angry god without love. In both cases, notice how it ends.
Two soldiers meet, strangers, knives in hand, set to kill. One, Mahler, the other, Beethoven. Eyes meet, a beat in time, a pause, sudden startled recognition of something only guessed. Mahler reaches into his coat, hands Beethoven the score of "Pan Awakes, Summer Marches In.” Beethoven drops his knife, reaches into his coat, hands Mahler the score of “Ode to Joy”. At once and forever, they stand together, brothers, unto death, against the world, against whatever authority would call them to war. So it might be, and should be, for us all, each sovereign, each bearing songs for the sustenance and delight of others.
Pan-Awakes
 
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“Mistakes Were NOT Made: One Poem to Wake the World” by Margaret Anna Alice, includes a reading by Dr. Tess Lawrie [5 minutes - this article and reading are having a powerful effect on the world]
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‘#MistakesWereNOTMade was inspired by a conversation Margaret had with Dr Mike Yeadon after they had "both independently noticed the increasing use of terms like 'bungled' and 'blunder' to describe the crimes against humanity perpetrated under the cloak of Covid. Inspired by contrarians such as George Orwell, Jonathan Swift, Étienne de La Boétie, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Hannah Arendt, Aldous Huxley, Anthony Burgess, Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Sowell, Roald Dahl, and Lewis Carroll, Margaret Anna aims to unmask totalitarianism and awaken the sleeping before tyranny triumphs.’
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Originally published as “Mistakes Were NOT Made: An Anthem for Justice” ••• January 1, 2023
 
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The Malone Doctrine ••• “A Declaration of Independence from the Decisions of Institutions that Lack Integrity”
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“Integrity Lost and Regained” ••• by Robert W. Malone, published by Brownstone Institute
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Interview ••• with Ed Dowd and Robert W. Malone, produced by Tommy’s Podcast
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Joe Rogan’s interview ••• [rumble, 3 hours] with Dr. Aseem Malhotra about statins
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Excerpt ••• [youtube, 15 minutes]
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“Reflections on a 38-year career in public health advocacy: 10 pieces of advice to early career researchers and advocates” ••• [pubmed] by Simon S. Chapman, 2015, Sydney School of Public Health, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia
 
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Glenn Greenwald practices (again) honest journalism: “BELLINGCAT—Who Funds the Favorite Outlet of NBC & the CIA?” •••
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Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth: A Struggle Between Two World-Systems ••• by Christopher Alexander with HansJoachim Neis and Maggie Moore Alexander
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"A NEW ARCHITECTURE, A NEW CIVILIZATION
"Our book describes a revolutionary vision of the human environment: one which will, in coming eras, be conceived, designed, built, made, and widely understood as a necessity of emotional and social life. This will inevitably change the way we conduct ourselves in all the arts of building.
"From the very beginning of the building project described in this book, we intended to show that architecture can bring life to a community — indeed, that it is necessary in order to help the community come to life. Thus, we mean to show how the physical fabric of the buildings plays a necessary and unavoidable role in the success of a community. …
"The purpose of all architecture, the purpose of its spatial-geometric organization, is to provide opportunities for life-giving situations. The central issue of architecture, and its central purpose, is to create those configurations and social situations, which provide encouragement and support for life-giving comfort and profound satisfaction — sometimes excitement — so that one experiences life as worth living. When this purpose is forgotten or abandoned, then indeed, there is no architecture to speak of."
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Two August 2011 posts on Facebook by Ralston College •••
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“Ralston College is delighted to announce that Sir Salman Rushdie has agreed to become a founding Patron of the College. Sir Salman is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Emory University, an Honorary Visiting Professor of the Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Doctor honoris causa of many universities, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.”
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‘Sir Salman is a noted defender of civil liberties: the motto of Ralston College, "Sermo Liber Vita Ipsa", is a translation into Latin of the words “free speech is life itself”, which come from an address that he risked his life to deliver in December 1991 at a dinner at Columbia University marking the two-hundredth anniversary of the First Amendment.’ —posted by Ralston College on Facebook, August 2011
 
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Tom W. Bell reaches this conclusion: “With the Catawba Digital Economic Zone, the Catawba Indian Nation can lay fair claim to creating the first special economic zone (SEZ) in the United States. Other contenders for the title fall short.” His paper ••• supporting this claim. Also, see below for a summary of Tom W. Bell’s paper.
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Journal of Special Jurisdictions •••
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Explorers Foundation’s glyph 639 on the Catawba Zone & Tom W. Bell’s work
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“How the UK’s 2004 Ban on Fox Hunting Led to a ‘Catastrophic Decline’ in the Fox Population: Britain’s foxes are victims of good intentions” ••• by Lawrence W. Reed
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Tucker Carlson now on Twitter - https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson
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“We’re Back” ••• [2:59 video] 09May23 - as of 11May23 viewed over 25 million times
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Current state of media ••• [2:16 video] 26Apr23 - as of 11May23 viewed over 25 million times
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan (born 1721) on the power of a free press:
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“Give me but the liberty of the press and i will give to the minister a venal house of peers. I will give him a corrupt and servile house of commons. I will give him the full swing of the patronage of office. I will give him the whole host of ministerial influence. I will give him all the power that place can confer upon him to purchase up submission and overawe resistance: And yet, armed with the liberty of the press, i will go forth to meet him undismayed. I will attack the mighty fabric of that mightier engine. I will shake down from its height corruption and bury it beneath the ruins of the abuses it was meant to shelter.” - probably from an address in the House of Commons, 1806-7
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Search for “Sheridan” in Here and There in London ••• [Gutenberg] by J. Ewing Ritchie, transcribed by W. Tweedie in 1859.
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About Sheridan: https://spartacus-educational.com/PRsheridan.htm
 
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A new way to make ammonia ••• — this may drop cost of fertilizers - depends on microspray [thanks to Jim McNelly, of Naturtech Systems ••• and to Dave Miles, of Noble Bioresources, Inc. ••• for the first clue to this]
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A new way to make microspray ••• [thanks to Robert Gore, of 4Ry]
 
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Silver Bullion, Singapore, spoke ••• with Keith Weiner, Founder and CEO of Monetary Metals about common gold opinions that he believes are fallacies, why the dollar is not dying anytime soon, and if it does, why gold is the only asset to replace the dollar.
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Discussed in this interview •••
01:17 Gold fallacies
05:11 Overprinting money
11:19 Inflation creature
19:01 Fed pick winners and losers?
21:31 Silver
28:49 Death of the dollar
35:12 Gold-backed CBDCs
38:51 De-dollarization views
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How Karl Popper Has Made a Difference in Our Lives — Testimonies from the five continents
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About ••• by Margaretha Hendrickx, Trumansburg, NY
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Contributors ••• — among them: Joseph Agassi, Rafe Champion, Jeremy Shearmur
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“From the Dismal Science to Critical Rationalism” ••• by Jeremy Shearmur
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Jeremy Shearmur’s lectures (23) on Karl Popper ••• [youtube]
 
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“Why Most Published Research Findings Are False,” John P. A. Ioannidis, Published: August 30, 2005
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“Published research findings are sometimes refuted by subsequent evidence, with ensuing confusion and disappointment. Refutation and controversy is seen across the range of research designs, from clinical trials and traditional epidemiological studies to the most modern molecular research. There is increasing concern that in modern research, false findings may be the majority or even the vast majority of published research claims. However, this should not be surprising. It can be proven that most claimed research findings are false. …”
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https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020124
 
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Two articles on how our country got where it is today:
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Norman Podhoretz - an interview with a creator of the New Left
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https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/present-at-the-creation-2
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Lew Rockwell - Why Tucker Carlson was fired
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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/05/lew-rockwell/why-tucker-carlson-had-to-be-purged-2
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April 2023 - threads of freeorder
 
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“New Koch” ••• on a shift in orientation of the philanthropic work of Charles Koch, by Adam Kissel, in The American Mind ••• a publication of the Claremont Institute •••
 
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Louis L’Amour
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The Education of a Wandering Man ••• — a strenuous start, with books (L’Amour’s personal library grew to 30,000 books), introduction by Daniel J. Boorstin, author of The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself •••
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“I quit school at 15 because it was interfering with my education.” —L’Amour, possibly paraphrased
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Interviewed ••• by Hank Nuwer
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Smithsonian Magazine article ••• about L’Amour by Donald Dale Jackson, 1987
 
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‘The Crime of “Talking to Tucker Carlson”’ ••• by Naomi Wolf
 
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New faculty-led organization at Harvard will defend academic freedom ••• — Steven Pinker and Bertha Madras explain why in the Boston Globe, 12 Apr 23.
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Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard •••
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https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/bobby-steps-up/ — James Howard Kunstler, about Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s speech announcing his candidacy for U.S. President
 
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The Hong Konger: Jimmy Lai's Extraordinary Fight for Freedom ••• [youtube] the newest documentary from the Acton Institute •••
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Mary McDermott Shideler on Hope, a virtue fundamental to the emergence of Freeorder
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Economics as a Source of Hope, as seen by Ludwig von Mises
Ludwig von Mises, In Human Action, published in 1949, offers hope for a better future for the human race when he notes that economics is only three hundred years old, and is a form of knowledge never before available to us.
From the first paragraph of Human Action:
“Economics is the youngest of all sciences. ... The discovery of regularity in the sequence and interdependence of market phenomena went beyond the limits of the traditional system of learning. It conveyed knowledge which could be regarded neither as logic, mathematics, psychology physics, nor biology.”
And, from the last paragraph:
“The body of economic knowledge is an essential element in the structure of human civilization; it is the foundation upon which modern industrialism and all the moral, intellectual, technological, and therapeutical achievements of the last centuries have been built. It rests with men whether they will make the proper use of the rich treasure with which this knowledge provides them or whether they will leave it unused. But if they fail to take the best advantage of it and disregard its teachings and warnings, they will not annul economics; they will stamp out society and the human race.”
If I had to chose only a few books essential to the preparation of forge builders and investors for their work of listening and acting on the edges of an emerging concert of civilizations, arising from the use of the best in all of us, Human Action would be one of those books. -ls
The entire Human Action is available here, from the Ludwig von Mises Institute, in digital versions for immediate download without charge:
http://mises.org/library/human-action-0
http://explorersfoundation.org/glyphery/561.html
May 3, 2016; edited/updated February 12, 2017
a list of all glyphs
 
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The Catawba Digital Economic Zone: A Native American SEZ •••
Tom W. Bell, Chapman University, The Dale E. Fowler School of Law
3 J. Special Jurisdictions 25 (2022), 23 Pages, Posted: 13 Dec 2022
Date Written: August 21, 2022
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Abstract: “The Catawba Indian Nation recently announced the launch of a new kind of special economic zone (SEZ) on its reservation lands in the Carolinas piedmont region. The Catawba Digital Economic Zone (CDEZ) aims to provide “A Jurisdiction Built for the Fintech and Digital Asset Industry.” Federal and state law affirms that the Nation has original and exclusive jurisdiction over two categories of disputes: those arising from contracts to which the Nation or its members are a party and those arising under any civil code that the Nation issues for the conduct of businesses and individuals on its reservation. Together, these give the Nation sovereign authority over commerce, real or virtual, that takes place on Catawba lands. The Nation has invoked this power to create the CDEZ. …”
 
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Jacob G. Hornberger: ‘In honor of the upcoming 60th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination, The Future of Freedom Foundation is launching a new video series that I am hosting entitled “The JFK Assassination—60 Years Later.” FFF is today publishing the introductory episode in this series’ — Episode 1
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Hornberger begins by saying that understanding the Kennedy assassination is the key to unraveling policies currently taking the U.S. into ever more extensive conflict.
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Interview (31 Jan 2001) with Jacob G. Hornberger, founder of FFF •••
 
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Robert F Kennedy Jr – A Presidential candidate to expose corporatist fascism ••• — written by Rodney Atkinson ••• found in Freenations ••• for 13 Apr 23 by Llewelly Rockwell •••
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“The son of the assassinated US Attorney General Robert Kennedy and the nephew of the assassinated President John F Kennedy, Robert F Kennedy Jr has announced he is running for President and is the first major political figure in the West to so clearly analyse and condemn corporatist fascism – that unholy alliance between right wing big business, left wing socialism and the totalitarian State. This philosophy is so dangerous and difficult to fight precisely because it combines the most authoritarian, Statist policies of both Left and Right. …
“Kennedy says of his Presidential candidacy: ‘my top priority will be to end the corrupt merger between state and corporate power that has ruined our economy, shattered the middle class, polluted our landscapes and waters, poisoned our children, and robbed us of our values and freedoms.’”
 
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Adrianople Group - “World Class Economic Zone Research and Advisory Services”
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“How Special Economic Zones Are Reshaping The World Economy” ••• by Kat Serlet, CEO of Adrianople Group •••
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World map of special zones ••• [openzonemap.com] by Adrianople Group
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Peter Beck, Rocket Labs, interview ••• [thanks to James C. Bennett]
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Jordan Peterson interviews Michael Yon ••• [youtube about 8 months ago]
 
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Joseph Brodsky on Lenin, in “On the communist origins of diversity, equality, and inclusion ideology” ••• [Heterodox STEM Substack] by Ilya R., 23 Apr 2023
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Fernanda Eberstadt on Brodsky’s Less than One ••• in Commentary Magazine, 1986
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Joseph Brodsky’s Nobel Price, 1987 •••
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Texas May Launch Its Own Gold-backed Digital Currency ••• by ZeroHedge, 08Apr23
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Texan senators introduced a Bill that would require the state comptroller to establish a digital currency that is fully backed by gold. The state of Texas would hold gold backing the currency in trust on behalf of the digital currency holders. A gold-backed digital currency would create an alternative and allow individuals and businesses to avoid Central Bank Digital Currencies.
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Senate Bill 2334 (SB2334); House Bill 4903 (HB4903); both introduced on 10 March 2023
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Jeff Deist, former President of the Mises Institute •••, will be joining Monetary Metals ••• full-time as General Counsel in May. Jeff writes about why he is doing this: ••• —an excerpt:
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“America and the West can do better, and we must. Political money is leading us down a path to oblivion. … Will we effectively steward the capital built up and bequeathed by previous generations, or consume it in an orgy of late-stage imperial delusion?
“These questions remain unanswered. But we know the path forward. Menger explained the market origins of money, Mises explained the marginal value of money, and Hayek explained why money must be denationalized. If America and the West hope to regain real prosperity, it begins with empowering market forces, rather than central bank soothsayers, to shape the future of money, credit, and interest rates. I believe Monetary Metals can play an important role in that future, which is why I’m thrilled to join their enterprise and build a more peaceful and prosperous monetary future.” 
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Stories of innovation
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Engines of Our Ingenuity •••
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Hero Show •••
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American Business History Center •••
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vWatt — Vortex Watt : tools & tool makers
 
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Mike Roizen interview ••• “90 Is the New 40: Dr. Michael Roizen, Chief Wellness Officer The Cleveland Clinic” [thanks to Patrick Cox, Science Officer, Mike Roizen’s company]
 
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Charles M. Schwab (1863-1939) - Steel Titan, Master Motivator - discussed on Robert Begley’s The Hero Show
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TawdchSxMIs [video, youtube, ]
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https://theheroshow.libsyn.com/charles-m-schwab-master-motivator - audio
 
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Global patents cover the creation and use of a new state of matter, wherein a variety of atoms are arranged with perfect uniformity. The resulting applications can be made at industrial scale and speed. In the near future, it won’t be possible to compete in the electronics industry without these materials. People devoted to reason and liberty currently own the patents. It's important that people aligned to these values know about this as soon. For information contact the editor of this newsletter by voice, text, or email.
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Midwestern Doctor’s Substack •••
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“One view of history identifies periodic “bifurcation points” where world history has the potential to go in two radically different directions, one positive and one negative.  It appears we have arrived at one such bifurcation point, with one path representing big tech and big pharma controlling every aspect of our lives while the other path representing a reclamation our true potential as individual human beings and within society as a whole.”
 
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From Dan Becker, at Exponential Communities •••
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For a long time I have been really interested in start-up societies (Seasteading Institute, Start-Up Societies Foundation, Free Cities Project) but have been frustrated by slow progress. Recently I read The Network State and am extremely impressed with the idea. I see how the ideas Balaji presents could give start-up societies real traction. Here is what stands out about the book to me:
▪ Legacy startup societies, appealing to governments without a history of success, appear to governments as high risk startups on numerous fronts simultaneously (technological, marketing, legal, administrative, financial etc.). Mature network unions, on the other hand, will present as established communities with  proven economic and administrative records as well as a substantial treasury. This translates into more productive government relations for network states in the future.
▪ Network unions are the birth of a new kind of institution for the digital age. They offer a completely fresh approach to collaborating on shared action in a decentralized, open and trustless manner.
▪ Network states represent a rejection of the top-down monopoly of institution creation and  embrace  a new bottom-up model of building institutions that people want and choose.
▪ You don’t need permission to build a startup society. You don’t have to change people’s minds or win an election. All you have to do is build your community on the digital frontier outside of “place” and behind a digital border.
▪ History recorded to a ledger provides an objective judge of political truth.  The ability to build a technological truth that allows people to know where they have been (culturally) and where they are going results in different decision making.
▪ The network diminishes the value of place and borders.
▪ By advocating a land last strategy, Balaji radically reduces the entry barriers to building a startup society.
I plan to spend the rest of my working life to advance this idea. If you share the passion, then I hope we can work together to build something great. Visit the Projects page to see projects with bounties that you can earn by working on this topic.
 
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Jeffrey Baldwin, Libre Institute: “How Hispanics will flourish and thrive in freedom in the 21st century” •••
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El Vaquero Libertario, by Ricardo Valenzuela, described in Threads, December 2022
 
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Reliance College •••
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Reliance is a residential college that offers a Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Arts. Our goal is for our students to become self-reliant individuals, able to defend and advance a free society.
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Learn how to be an entrepreneur in life, no matter what you do for a living.
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An education that actively and engagingly prepares you to thrive – intellectually, morally, socially, and practically. Opening September 2024. Chicago.
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“Achievement and success require the vision of the possible and the ability to weather the actual.”
-Marsha Familaro Enright, founder
 
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March 2023 - threads of freeorder
 
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News from Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) •••
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Stanford Law School dean makes powerful commitment to free expression after shout-down controversy •••
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Stanford Law School recently landed in hot water when student protestors, enabled by a DEI administrator, heckled and shouted down a sitting federal judge invited to give a speech. FIRE’s Campus Rights Advocacy team was immediately on the case, and we were pleased when Stanford Law Dean Jenny Martinez issued a 10-page statement strongly reaffirming Stanford’s commitment to free expression, explaining in detail how the hecklers violated Stanford policy, and outlining specific steps to create a better culture for open discourse at the school — including mandatory free speech trainings for staff and students.”
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Florida city bans ‘political’ events of 10-plus people in all parks, streets, and sidewalks •••
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“Thinking of organizing a protest on public property in the City of Belleair Beach, Florida? You may have to think again. The city's code requires any group of 10 or more people “who desire to have a gathering in any city park or playground or other public property” to obtain a permit from the city, while prohibiting permits for “political" or "organized events." FIRE wrote the city yesterday to explain that the ordinance violates the First Amendment.”
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Zachery Caceres
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“Let’s Bring Back the World’s Fair” •••
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Spencer MacCallum - a eulogy ••• for a man who made his own world, by Caceres
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Startup Cities •••
 
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Hempbuild Magazine ••• edited by Jean Lotus
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Flooring made from hemp - hempwood.com
 
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News from special zones in Honduras and South Carolina
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21 Mar 23: Próspera ••• is hiring a Head of Real Estate Development ••• — full-time, Roatan, Honduras (HN), remote friendly
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17 Mar 23: “We have great news to share: as of today, the Catawba Digital Economic Zone ••• has opened its doors to founders worldwide! We are now allowing users from outside the United States to register LLCs and DAO LLCs and be governed under the CDEZ’s legal framework!” —from Joeseph McKinney, on Telegram
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Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge
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"The Great Fugue ... now seems to me the most perfect miracle in music, …” "It is also the most absolutely contemporary piece of music I know, and contemporary forever ... Hardly birthmarked by its age, the Great Fugue is, in rhythm alone, more subtle than any music of my own century ... I love it beyond everything.” —Stravinsky
‘The Grosse Fuge, Op. 133, is a single-movement composition for string quartet by Ludwig van Beethoven. An immense double fugue, it was universally condemned by contemporary music critics. A reviewer writing for the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung in 1826 described the fugue as "incomprehensible, like Chinese" and "a confusion of Babel.”’ Wikipedia
Op. 133 ••• played by Takács Quartet, with full score (scrolling)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grosse_Fuge
 
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How Beethoven thought about big fugues: Andras Schiff plays and illustrates the final movement of piano sonata 29, Op, 106 ••• [youtube]
 
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Paul Rosenberg’s tribute to Harry Schultz (1923-2023) https://freemansperspective.com/rip-harry-schultz/ vArcher
 
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George Westinghouse: Powering the World ••• [goodreads] by William R. Huber, foreword by Gary Hoover, American Business History Center •••
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“George Westinghouse: Servant Leader, Inventor, Captain of Industry” ••• by Gary Hoover | Feb 27, 2019
Westinghouse-and-generator
 
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Swirlds ••• “building the trust layer of the internet”
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“Create a fair and trusted cloud without servers.”
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“Swirlds is a software platform designed to build fully-distributed applications that harness the power of the cloud without servers. Now you can develop applications with fairness in decision making, speed, trust and reliability, at a fraction of the cost of traditional server-based platforms.
“A tech report is available, which is a white paper describing the hashgraph, the consensus algorithm, and the mathematical proofs of Byzantine fault tolerance. A second tech report goes through examples illustrating each step of the consensus algorithm.”
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The Heart of the Cheetah, a forthcoming book by Magatte Wade ••• vCheetah
 
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Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa ••• by Ilana Mercer ••• — two reviews by Jack Kerwick •••
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Ilana Mercer’s Into the Cannibal’s Pot, a review ••• published in “New American” Feb 2012
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“At once autobiographical and political; philosophical, historical, and practical; controversial and commonsensical, Cannibal succeeds in weaving into a seamless whole a number of distinct modes of thought.”
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“Reflections on Ilana Mercer’s Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa”, a review ••• published in “At the Intersection of Faith & Culture”
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“Although theory and practice are indeed mutually distinct domains, their distinctness should never be taken for exclusiveness. Theory is as distinct from practice as is the spider from its web or the bird from its nest. Moreover, just as the web arises from the spider and the nest from the bird, so too is theory born from reflection on practice. This can be seen for the truth that it is whether we are attending to contemporary political works spun from more commonplace imaginations or the philosophical masterpieces of the Western tradition.”
 
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Journal of Free Black Thought ••• [substack] vSocrates
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“Ikigai: The Sweet Spot of Fulfillment ••• by Jewel Kinch-Thomas •••
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“Radical Grace: Give a transformative gift” ••• by Jewel Kinch-Thomas •••
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“Some time back, I wrote a post for my Tune Into Leadership blog entitled “Soulful Grace in the Face of Adversity.” I was moved and inspired by the many instances I was seeing of individuals doing something they didn’t have to do in mindfulness of the needs of another person. Whether it was Christian Cooper, the Central Park birdwatcher, defending the right to a livelihood of Amy Cooper, who had called the police on him, or Jacob Blake Jr.’s mother, Julia Jackson, praying with a police officer after Jacob was shot seven times by another officer. These moments of Grace illuminate the best in us and speak to a greater purpose beyond ourselves.
“We need radical Grace—intentional, beautiful, conscious human-to-human gifting of Spirit Blessings that strengthen our connective tissue and fortify our physical and psychological wellbeing. We need to be purposeful about recognizing and acting from this place of Being.”
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“There are black conservatives and liberals, socialists and free-marketeers, traditionalists and radicals, theists and atheists, everything in between, and more besides. FREE BLACK THOUGHT seeks to represent the rich diversity of black thought beyond the relatively narrow spectrum of views promoted by mainstream outlets as defining "the black perspective."
 
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Anyone suffering from long-ETHD (possible exposure to Spork protein at ETHDenver •••) may find nattokinase helpful ••• [the wellness company]
 
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February 2023 - threads of freeorder
 
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“Duke Ellington's Rooted Cosmopolitanism” ••• by Greg Thomas
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“Jazz Leadership Project founders Greg Thomas and Jewel Kinch-Thomas launched the Tune In To Leadership blog ••• to advance creative conversations on leadership in personal, civic, cultural and organizational life.”
 
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Dr. Pierre Kory on reason for “excess deaths” during the pandemic [root cause, mass casualty scenario]
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“The reason why I am reluctant to accept there was a primary intent to cause death is that I just can’t. I have been exposed to so much fraud and corruption and ignorance within the medical system through Covid, with what now seems like systematic depravity around the vaccines, but I can’t believe any suggestion that health care providers systematically began to practice euthanasia or homicide in the early pandemic. Or that the policies were formed with a primary intent to cause excess death in care homes. I just can’t do it. And won’t, because if I do, then the world is lost to me.”
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https://pierrekory.substack.com/p/more-thoughts-on-the-increase-in
 
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About Robert Gore’s “Straight Line Logic” ••• “Never underestimate the value of a question”
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Compensation, by Robert Gore [the content of that page follows]
Value for Value.
Straight Line Logic has never solicited donations because I recoil at that term. The connotation is that the recipient is receiving some sort of charity. I believe compensation, denoting value-for-value exchange, is the appropriate term.
SLL will never put up a paywall. The site has always been dedicated to truth and freedom and that overrides monetary considerations. There are readers who don’t have either the means or the inclination to offer compensation. However, I think there are readers who will if asked. So, I’m asking. SLL will now accept compensation through WordPress via Stripe or by check or money order (please see the sidebar for the mailing address).
What value does SLL offer in return? Simply put, SLL cuts through the reams of intellectual clutter, nonsense, and lies that bombard us daily. SLL is based on the premises that freedom is the foundation of human progress and happiness, truth is paramount, and inquiry and logic are the essential tools for realizing those objectives. What SLL readers perhaps value the most are its clarity and understanding.
Wayne Gretzky: “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.” Through the years, SLL has skated to where the puck is going to be. It’s not by clairvoyance, rather it flows from inquiry and logic.
SLL early on identified the revulsion millions of Americans feel towards those who would rule us, which led to the phenomenal rise of Donald Trump. “Much More Than Trump” traced the groundswell back to the Vietnam War. That article ranks as one of SLL’s most read and reposted. SLL predicted Trump’s victory in 2016.
Before he even took office, SLL saw his clashes with the Deep State coming and later, called out the so-called scandals—from Russiagate to the impeachments—as politically motivated frauds. SLL said that Trump would win in a landslide in 2020 if he got an honest vote count, but also warned that he probably wouldn’t get it.
SLL was one of the first to call the Coronavirus response what it has been—“a totalitarian horror”—whose objectives are power and control, not public health and safety. Through the spring and summer of 2020, SLL shredded the mainstream propaganda, which had unfortunately found its way into much of the alternative media, and deplored the destruction of human rights and freedom. From masks to vaccines, SLL has been resolutely skeptical of the various Coronavirus nostrums, all of which have proved to be ineffective, dangerous, or both. (I’m unvaccinated.)
Now the world confronts an even greater threat: nuclear war. An onslaught of mainstream propaganda has buried the story behind the Ukraine-Russia War, which began not in February of 2022 but with the U.S. sponsored coup in 2014. SLL is neither a Putin lover or hater, but does acknowledge his skills and competence. He made a solid case why he doesn’t want NATO’s puppet on Russia’s doorstep, but the U.S. closed the door to negotiations. That course precluded, Russia has waged a war it is winning, notwithstanding the propaganda to the contrary. The nuclear danger turns on whether Putin’s rationality or the U.S. establishment’s delusional bellicosity prevails. Stay tuned, SLL will continue to tell the full story.
SLL has no monopoly on penetrating analyses and solid writing. Everyday I repost ten to fifteen articles by other bloggers, that day’s best from my reading in the alternative media. Scan the excerpts, read the articles that most interest you, follow the links, and you’ll have a pretty good idea of what’s going on in the world . . . and why.
Value is not just monetary, it can be measured in terms of time saved, information collected, insight garnered, and clarity realized. SLL’s featured bloggers unearth hard data, challenge authority, and peel back the curtain on corruption and evil. The alternative media is one of the last redoubts against the totalitarianism that threatens to engulf the globe. In the face of mounting risks, the best of the alternative media fights for disclosure, truth, and freedom. If that’s not value, what is?
If Straight Line Logic has value to you, please click the COMPENSATION link below and make either a one-time or regular monthly or annual payments. Those who make larger regular payments can receive signed copies of my books, The Golden Pinnacle, Prime Deceit, or Everything I Know About Business I Learned From The Godfather. Those who make really substantial payments will receive signed copies of all my books and my next novel, The Gray Radiance, when it’s published (I hope by the end of this year). They will also receive an invitation to a virtual Meet the Author event. The details are on the Compensation page. I thank in advance anyone who makes a payment or payments, large or small.
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Thank you
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https://straightlinelogic.com/compensation/
 
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“Anatomy of a Cover-up: The January 6 Tapes” by Julie Kelly, February 20, 2023 [~thanks to Robert Gore’s straightlinelogic.com, 22 Feb 2023]
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“It’s possible, even likely, the never-before-seen footage will show the elements of a preplanned attack engineered by the same political and government forces that attempted to destroy Donald Trump for the better part of six years.” —Julie Kelly, from the above article
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https://amgreatness.com/2023/02/20/anatomy-of-a-cover-up-the-january-6-tapes/
 
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Keeping Civilization Alive ••• Paul Rosenberg, Freeman’s Perspective •••
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Beautifully clear, direct, and simple — Rosenberg’s point-of-view is needed.
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This essay was found on Robert Gore’s Straight Line Logic ••• 20 Feb 2023
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A list ••• of back issues of Freeman’s Perspective and Parallel Society
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“Freeman’s Perspective and Parallel Society are newsletters unlike any you’ve seen before, dedicated to creating a new model of human life and making the old way obsolete.
As you’ll see below, our Freeman’s Perspective issues are dedicated to uncovering crucial facts that are important, engaging, and that simply are not covered elsewhere. Our Parallel Society issues are more practical, beginning from the conviction that, the world shouldn’t happen to us, we should happen to the world. If you’ve ever asked (or have been asked) “Yes, but what can we do?” our Parallel Society issues are the answer.”
 
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Oracle Films ••• “Messages that Matter”
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“Oracle Films is an independent production company with a passion for high-quality filmmaking and truth in media. Established in 2020, here's ••• a glimpse at some of the things Oracle Films has done since it's founding.”
 
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Black Books, Black Minds ••• Igniting a New World of Community, Connection, and Belonging, One Black History Book at a Time, by Diamond-Michael Scott, launched 2 years ago
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A page on ••• the life and work of Marcus Garvey, where this is found:
Black-Star-Line-1919
The above text didn’t appear in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged.
Would it have fit there? Reasons for “yes”, and for “no”?
 
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American Institute for Economic Research ••• — another Bastiat Society ••• program
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“AIER's Bastiat Society of Charleston x.com invites you to join us TOMORROW, February 21st  at 5:30pm EST for an event [not an online program] with Alexander W. Salter x.com, Senior Fellow of the Sound Money Project at AIER.
“Representative democracy, constitutionalism, and the rule of law are crucial for establishing a just and prosperous society. But where did they come from? We usually treat these institutions as the fruits of the Renaissance and Enlightenment, removed from the Dark Ages.
“But this commonly held view is wrong. The political and legal institutions we cherish have their roots in medieval Europe.
“The liberties and immunities of medieval Europe are the foundation of contemporary political freedom. To understand how today's wealthy and free nations built strong yet constrained states, we must acknowledge the invaluable political inheritance they received from the Middle Ages. Without romanticizing medieval life, Salter will show why we should acknowledge and appreciate the medieval roots of modern prosperity.”
 
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How big money creates and runs disinformation campaigns to destroy competition. Dr. Pierre Kory explains the entire playbook, and illustrates its use in the case of the suppression of information about effective low-cost treatments of the corona virus. This is a superb account of a case of deliberate destruction for the sake of profit - a lesson in how a bad part of our world works.
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Dr. Kory Presents at the Lakaruppropet Conference in Stockholm, Pandemic Strategies: Lessons and Consequences, 21-22 January 2023: https://covid19criticalcare.com/dr-kory-presents-at-the-2023-lakaruppropet-conference-in-stockholm/
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https://lakaruppropet.se/international-conference-pandemic-strategies/ — all presentations
 
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Tanner Green’s review ••• [scholar’s stage] of America 3.0 by James C. Bennett and Michael J. Lotus
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“It is unusual for me to read a book aimed at popular conservative audiences.  I am something of a disaffected conservative. Crony capitalism and government overreach have proved to be bipartisan endeavors, and I have long lost faith that the Republican party can ever be more than an organ of America’s governing elite. Outside of the beltway the broader currents of mainstream conservatism are so full of angry sound and righteous fury (and nothing else) that I have long stopped paying close attention them. The movement is in desperate need of a clearer vision and more compelling purpose. 
“America 3.0 is the book to provide it.”
 
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“The Peculiar Case of a U.S. Embassy Attacking a Free-Market Educator in an Undeveloped Country” •••
 
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“The case for us to make is that the individual matters.” —Nigel Farage
 
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Things to affirm, question, affirm, question again … to what end?
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“Ten Lies About Reality” ••• by John Andrews, Editor, BackboneAmerica.net
 
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“Culture Wars are Long Wars” ••• by Tanner Green ••• The Scholar’s Stage •••
 
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A brilliant essay, foreshadowing the emergence of Freeorder, by N.S. Lyons in City Journal -ls
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“Meantime, much of American society’s genuine intellectual, artistic, and comedic energy—the kind of creative fire that draws bright young minds—has migrated to the Right.” City Journal’s constructive provocation: “A New Counterculture? If the Right captures some of the Left’s youthful energy and rebellious cachet, it would represent a tectonic cultural and political shift.” ••• by N.S. Lyons, in City Journal •••
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N.S. Lyon’s, in his Substack ••• “The Power Latent in a Countercultural Right” ••• commentary on the above article
 
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Wilhelm Röpke: https://lawliberty.org/was-wilhelm-ropke-the-first-fusionist by Samuel Gregg
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“The man who combined the conservative’s emphasis on order with the classical liberal’s attention to liberty.”
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“Röpke is primarily remembered as a key intellectual force behind the program of economic liberalization implemented in 1948 in the British and American zones of occupied postwar Germany. These reforms took a war-ravaged and highly collectivized West Germany and turned it into Europe’s economic superpower.”
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“Miracle Men: How Market Liberals Saved Germany from Economic Catastrophe” ••• by Samuel Gregg
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https://lawliberty.org/when-a-classical-liberal-confronted-nazi-terror/ —more Gregg, on Röpke
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New French biography of Röpke •••
 
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A Global Airship Race! •••
 
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"Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.” —Isabel Paterson, The God of the Machine
These good people (ultimately) are fooled by bad people. But to consider them as “useful idiots” will block the understanding that will make change possible.
The above quotation is found at the beginning of the first of Robert Bidinotto’s “Hunter” books. In “Acknowledgements” he writes: “To the late philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand, for having been the most profound influence on my philosophy, values, and literary preferences. Some may even see a wee bit of her own fictional vigilante, Ragnar Danneskjöld, in Dylan Hunter.” —Robert Bidinotto. HUNTER: A Dylan Hunter Justice Thriller (Dylan Hunter Thrillers Book 1) (p. 467). Avenger Books. Kindle Edition.
 
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Interview ••• by Maryanne Demasi, Ph.D. with Tom Jefferson, MD, the lead author of the (infinitely cautious) Cochrane review of masks and the transmission of viruses. The first question and answer:
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DEMASI: This Cochrane review has caused quite a stir on social media and inflamed the great mask debate. What are your thoughts?
JEFFERSON: Well, it’s an update from our November 2020 review and the evidence really didn't change from 2020 to 2023. There’s still no evidence that masks are effective during a pandemic.
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“Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses” ••• published by Cochrane Library •••
 
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An elite without challenge becomes malignantly corrupt. A principal task of such elites is to shut down critics, disable their means of communication.
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Big Scurvy fears, hates, and silences sources and advocates of vitamin C.
 
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“One Million Strong: Riding towards the sound of the cannon fire” ••• by Robert W. Malone
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“Today, I hit a minor milestone (for me, anyway). I now have over one million followers on Twitter. That means in less than two months I went from a yearlong Twitter ban, to coming back on with under a half million followers …”
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“We are fighting for free speech, individual sovereignty, national sovereignty, medical freedom; this is a worldwide freedom movement, or a better description might be a Worldwide Freedom Alliance …”
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Robert W. Malone’s farm, Cielo Azure Lusitanos ••• — what he puts at risk for what he’s doing
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“The modern Lusitano has been carefully developed in Portugal over the last few decades to become a world-class versatile sporthorse while remaining true to the historic breed type and characteristics of this oldest of ridden horse breeds.”
 
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The Wellness Company ••• — co-founded by Dr. Peter McCullough
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Long-haul formula ••• to detox spike protein — based on Nattokinase
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thanks to Wendi Casey, Executive Leadership Group •••
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https://spectator.org/a-shoutout-to-silent-cal-for-presidents-day —Lawrence W. Reed
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No debt increases; no war; more press conferences than any other president.
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“In 1924, a man named Charles Gardner wrote to Coolidge to protest the Republican Party’s nomination of a black dentist for a New York congressional seat. Coolidge’s unequivocal reply could have been written by Frederick Douglass or Martin Luther King Jr.” — Date: August 9, 1924
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Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation ••• — 2023 Centennial
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Coolidge ••• by Amity Shlaes, published by HarperCollins, 2014
 
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January 2023 - threads of freeorder
 
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Isadora Kolar writes that an Ayn Rand oriented online platform will soon be available.
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“Objectiversity Is Finally Here! — It is an immense pleasure for us to finally be able to announce our new platform, Objectiversity! For the past year, we have been diligently working on creating a space where our alumni, partners, and future John Galt School students will be able to access a wide variety of articles, videos, lectures, and a lot of other Objectivist content, all while enabling our users to interact, discuss different topics and actively engage in creating new content. Objectiversity will become available for our partners, alumni, and other affiliated subjects all around the world soon, so keep an eye out for your invitation!” — Ayn Rand Center, Europe (ARCE) •••
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ARCE’s John Galt School ••• now in 20 countries with over 900 enrolled students and 100 lecturers.
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Found in Believe in People: Bottom-Up Solutions for a Top-Down World ••• by Charles G. Koch and Brian Hooks. St. Martin's Publishing Group ••• [Macmillan]
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The Family Independence Initiative (FII)
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“The Family Independence Initiative is a nonprofit, community-based organization that is considered an on-the-ground social laboratory for new strategies to tackle poverty. At its core, the Family Independence Initiative approach is both radical and as old as our republic. Their philosophy is that low-income people can advance together if we re-ignite the resource sharing, mutual support, and role modeling that has historically helped immigrant families leave poverty behind.  They model new policies that reward strength and initiative (as opposed to need) and are led by the families themselves, rather than programs or professional caseworkers.
“As part of the Family Independence Initiative, working poor families self-organize into peer support groups. They set personal goals for their families and obtain cash payments for reporting monthly progress, such as raising children’s grades, improving their credit score, or building their savings. Every month, participating families log onto an online reporting system to record what actions they took. They also meet monthly with their peer group to discuss their challenges and successes. Proponents of FII’s approach cite this combination of supportive social networks, consistent benchmarking of progress, and—most importantly—personalized paths out of poverty designed by the families themselves, as the key ingredients of the approach’s success.”
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Stand Together •••
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“Stand Together’s vision is for a society where every person can realize their potential and live a life of meaning. That is the North Star that guides everything we do.”
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“The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.” —Harrington Emerson
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26 Jan 23: A federal judge in California on Wednesday granted Children’s Health Defense-California Chapter’s request for a preliminary injunction to block a California law that would have allowed the state’s medical boards to punish doctors for spreading “COVID-19 misinformation.” ••• [Children’s Health Defense - “The Defender”]
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vGuardian
 
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“Robert Heinlein's Dream of Private Space Travel Is Coming True: A new generation of companies has made space travel affordable” ••• by Robert Poole •••
 
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Hanna Arendt
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“Hannah Arendt's Exploration Of Totalitarianism” ••• [youtube]
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Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities ••• at Bard College •••
 
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Randolph Bourne Institute ••• anti-war
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Bourne is famous for writing, “war is the health of the state.”
 
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Robert W. Malone on the Project Veritas video interview with their director of research
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Malone’s Substack post ••• (with a link to Yeat’s great poem about the beast)
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“Here is the rough beast in the flesh, slouching towards Bethlehem to be born. Devoid of empathy. Avarice its purpose. It’s face glowing with joy, oblivious to the profound human tragedy it enables, reveling in the damage wrought to the web of humanity and the structure of a nation. Oblivious to the horror embodied in its words, in the very fabric of its language. Possessed by a deep belief in its own entitlement. Oozing dizzy narcissism. Celebrating corruption. Completely devoid of wisdom, introspection or self-awareness of the fundamental perversion of its soul.” —¶ 3 of the above
 
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Article ••• about Glenn Cripe & The Language of Liberty Institute, by Sarah Perry, published by The Atlas Society ••• July 2011
 
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Sean Gabb’s series of video presentations on the Eastern Roman Empire
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01. Byzantium: The Beginning: https://youtu.be/Y7IRqLcm4O8
02. Byzantium: Survival and Growth: https://youtu.be/8JTEE4pRxAE
03. The Age of Justinian – Cashing in the Gains of the Fifth Century: https://youtu.be/0T9-BVcbYTA
04. The Age of Justinian – The Hand of God: https://youtu.be/-0wbVtnwVO0
05. Into the Storm: https://youtu.be/rsrI-LR_tNI
06. Weathering the Storm: https://youtu.be/vgzVST10p14
07. Recovery and Return to Hegemony, 717-1025: https://youtu.be/s-unqoCWM-0
08. The Breakdown, 1025-1204: https://youtu.be/8246REFyLKA
09. The Last Centuries, 1204-1453: https://youtu.be/trij8eOKZMo
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Sean Gabb’s home page: https://www.seangabb.co.uk/
 
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Andras Schiff's Lectures on Beethoven Piano Sonatas ••• discussion of the lifelong evolution of a creative mind, illustrated on piano
 
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“Mistakes Were NOT Made: An Anthem for Justice” 77398cc8-fadc-465c-a981-9f3f28117650_600x600Margaret Anna Alice
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A response to pandemic, vaccines, lockdowns, shutdown of critics, etc.
 
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“Curtis Yarvin claims to teach bracing truths. But are they just consoling lies?” The Red-Pill Pusher
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This is somehow related to the idea of personally controlled computing and networks, linked in the following item about Tlon and Urbit.
 
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Tlon & Urbit
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Tlon: https://tlon.io/company — networked computing, a foundational redesign of the relationship between your computer and the internet … https://tlon.io/developers
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Urbit: https://urbit.org/ — ‘Urbit is a new kind of computer that you can own completely in ways that matter: networking, identity, & data” … “We realized that in order to fix the internet, we had to build a new computer from scratch. Good thing we started over a decade ago. Today, Urbit is a real system with thousands of users that are building all kinds of communities, software, DAOs, and more. And it’s getting better every day.”
 
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Start9 ••• [concepts&faq] sovereign computing
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embasyOS ••• “embassyOS is a new kind of Operating System (OS). It is a built from the ground up to allow anyone to easily run their own “cloud,” become independent from Big Tech, and own their own data. embassyOS allows anyone to easily host their own software services.”
 
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PANDA Uncut •••
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“PANDA is a multidisciplinary organisation with a mission to uphold open science and enable societies to flourish. 
Through exploring all aspects of science and sense-making, encouraging rational debate and helping inform sound public policy, society is empowered to make better choices.
PANDA Uncut is where our executive does free thinking, exploring new ideas and suggesting new perspectives.”
 
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Lara Logan interviewed ••• by X22 Report
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Agree with Logan or disagree, her research matters. She may be wrong about some things, but she’s a truth seeker, someone worth arguing with.
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X22 writes: “Lara Logan Award-winning investigative journalist. Lara begins the conversation talking about Ukraine and how Ukraine is [DS] base of operation, human trafficking and money laundering and many of other criminal activities takes place there. Zelensky is a puppet. …We are in a 5th generation war and the patriots are winning the narrative fight.”
 
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Carrie-Ann Biondi on Mike Rowe and Ayn Rand
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Regarding: “my article on Rowe and Rand! ••• I was delighted that Mike Rowe ••• on his own noticed it and then shared a link ••• to my article--along with a beautiful write-up on his Facebook page. That post got over 20,000 likes and 1,500 (mostly positive) comments, making it the most widely read  TOS ••• article.
Mike Rowe and Ayn Rand on the Virtues of Thinking and Producing ••• by Carrie-Ann Biondi September 22, 2022
If you are interested in other Rand-related pieces that I have published, there are several freely available:
• A chapter on Ayn Rand (pp. 67-78) in The Essential Women of Liberty.
• "Surrender in The Fountainhead," on Kurt Keefner's blog.
• "On the Enduring Appeal of Ayn Rand's Philosophy," in IAI News.
• "Review Essay of Allan Gotthelf and Gregory Salmieri’s (ed.) A Companion to Ayn Rand," in Reason Papers.
• "Book Review of Tara Smith's Judicial Review in an Objective Legal System,"  in Reason Papers.
• "Review Essay of Tara Smith's Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics,"  in Reason Papers.
 
Big Scurvy fears, hates, and silences sources and advocates of vitamin C.
 
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Why everyone would benefit from a law preventing exposure to sunlight ••• [youtube video]
 
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Karez irrigation tunnels in Afghanistan ••• text and photos [2010] by Michael Yon ••• [current]
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Small Wars Journal ••• [source of above article]
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More articles ••• by Michael Yon
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See also, Caravans ••• by James Mitchener
 
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What Ayn Rand Meant by ‘Americanism’ ••• [in The Objective Standard, originally published by fee.org]
 
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Farida Nabourema: “From Africa, a Brave Voice for Freedom” ••• by Jay Nordlinger, 2 Jan 2023
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https://www.nationalreview.com/search/?s=togo
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Magatte Wade points to a future use of bitcoin, and quotes ••• Farida Nabourema on the price of coffee in Togo
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http://explorersfoundation.org/cheetah.html
 
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A new national evidence-based medical registry ••• for doctors who will treat patients according to the best scientific evidence, unless the patient has Covid or mRNA vaccine related illnesses and lives in California. But even in California it’s still legal to deliver evidence-based treatments for illnesses not related to Covid.
 
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Zero Aggression Project (ZAP) •••
 
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Evolution of the Borg ••• [Kurzweil, Harari] yes, no, maybe?
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"The Devices Will Be Inside Our Bodies and Brains. We Will Connect the Top Layer of Our Neocortex to Synthetic Neocortex In the Cloud." —Ray Kurzweil, Director of Engineering at Google, and Yuval Noah Harari
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Important question: if this happens will it be forced upon the unwilling? See ZAP, above.
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About the Borg ••• [wikipedia]
 
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Stoke Space ••• shows off fully-reusable rocket concept ••• [thanks to Jim Bennett]
 
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Hedera ••• Haus @ Davos 2023 ••• 15-20 January — https://hedera.com/davos2023
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We are delighted to invite you to Hedera Haus at Davos 2023. This unique space on the promenade [Promenade 71, Davos Platz] is in the heart of the action during Davos. We will be hosting receptions and content throughout the week, showcasing applications from Hedera council members including Avery Dennison, Service Now, Standard Bank, and DLA Piper TOKO. Additionally, visitors will have an opportunity to offset their carbon footprint on Hedera.
 
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December 2022 - threads of freeorder
 
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Dr. John Campbell Called for an End to COVID Vaccines, full video ••• [Rumble]
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30 Dec 2022, email from Dr. Tess Lawrie ••• [Substack] MBBCh, PhD
 
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Valenzuela, Ricardo, a story, El Vaquero Libertario (Spanish)
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“El Vaquero Libertario es un libro que inspira y su autor, Ricardo Valenzuela, también. Recorrer junto con él la gran aventura de la edición de su libro ha sido una experiencia profundamente enriquecedora y de aprendizaje total. El Vaquero Libertario es un gran legado a la causa de la Filosofía de la libertad y para quienes consideran que la libertad económica es la ruta para el progreso individual y por lo tanto para el mundo. Redactado de manera minuciosa, con una impecable narrativa que hace que el lector mantenga su atención a lo largo de las más de 800 páginas de su exquisito recorrido, narrado con un lenguaje tan rico y nutrido de las más bellas y precisas palabras de nuestro idioma.” —from the prolog
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"El Vaquero Libertario is a book that inspires and so does its author, Ricardo Valenzuela. Going through the great adventure of editing his book with him has been a profoundly enriching experience and a total learning experience. El Vaquero Libertario is a great legacy to the cause of the philosophy of freedom and to those who believe that economic freedom is the route to individual progress and therefore to the world. Thoroughly written, with an impeccable narrative that keeps the reader's attention throughout the more than 800 pages of its exquisite journey, told in language so rich and nourished with the most beautiful and precise words of our language." —Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator ••• (free version)
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Available through Amazon Books •••
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https://vaquerolibertario.blogspot.com
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vZorro
 
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Why China will be foremost among world civilizations
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“In late 2021, the Global Times, the CCP’s newspaper, carried an article complaining about a serious lack of skilled submariners to operate China’s seventy or so submarines, especially the six nuclear powered ones and the six nuclear armed ones. However, it said, this problem is being overcome because submariners were now being obliged to study Xi Jinping Thought every morning.” —Quadrant Magazine ••• Frank Mount, December 2022
 
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Beyond Homeless ••• a way to solve the problem
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A video ••• [thanks to Lara Ewing Himber] comparing San Fransisco and San Antonio, showing what doesn’t work and what does. Made by the Mary Theroux and the Independent Institute •••
 
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Gary Hoover’s American History Business Center ••• (and his home) burned and was completely destroyed. Here’s where we can help ••• [GoFundMe]
 
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The War on Ivermectin: The Medicine That Saved Millions and Could Have Ended the COVID Pandemic ••• [Simon & Schuster, distributors] by Dr. Pierre Kory to be distributed by a major publishing house. The book is published by Skyhorse Publishing •••
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https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/102183
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This article is an attack on Dr. Kory and his thesis. Instructive, nevertheless.
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‘Pierre Kory, MD, one of the most vocal proponents of ivermectin for COVID-19, has the support of Simon & Schuster, with the leading publishing house slated to distribute his upcoming book, which claims the widely discredited drug "saved millions.”’ — Dr. Kory says, “It still amazes me they can lie like this, but I appreciate the free publicity.”
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Dr. Kory’s return to Twitter after ban ••• [Dr. Kory’s post on Twitter]
 
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“Dialogue with a Narrative Believer” ••• by Margaret Anna Alice, who although opposed to mandates and vaxxports illustrates an approach to written exchange in quest of truth that is among the best I’ve seen. I cannot recommend this writer’s Substack too highly. -ls
 
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The Free Press ••• created by Bari Weiss and her fellow refugees from big media
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“The Free Press is a new media company founded by Bari Weiss and built on the ideals that once were the bedrock of great journalism: honesty, doggedness, and fierce independence. We publish investigative stories and provocative commentary about the world as it actually is—with the quality once expected from the legacy press, but the fearlessness of the new.”
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“After I blew up my career at The New York Times, I knew I was done with the legacy media—and it was certainly done with me. Six months later, I wrote my first entry for a newsletter that I figured a few people would sign up for, most of them related to me. Today, that newsletter, Common Sense, has more than 260,000 subscribers. … So today we give that company a name. Welcome to The Free Press.” —Bari Weiss, email
 
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Hedera Hashgraph is an alternative and/or compliment to blockchains.
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The Hedera Ecosystem: https://hedera.com/ecosystem
 
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Liberator Rocket Heaters •••
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“Burns pellets and wood at ~99.5% efficiency”
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“Consumes up to 50% less wood than traditional wood stoves.
 
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freeorder —> Freeorder (and the “terracotta” metaphor)
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By balancing quest conducive designed and spontaneous orders within ourselves, and within every culture, we will bring about the emergence of a concert of civilizations that could be named “Freeorder”. Or, catalyzed processes —> a new constantly evolving states of affairs — very properly felt and understood with the help of the terracotta metaphor, developed by Anas Khan and associates.
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What is Terracotta Environmentalism? ••• by Mohammad Anas Khan - April 22, 2021, published by Spontaneous Order ••• India
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Sand County Foundation ••• has a similar way of thinking about humans and the environment.
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Running with Rhinos ••• [Amazon] a true tale of adventure by Ed Warner (on board of Sand County Foundation) is in the spirit of terracotta environmentalism.
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Discover Magazine article ••• about Ed and Rhinos.
 
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Orbital Assembly ••• from one of their news releases
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Orbital Assembly is developing real estate in space to fulfill the dream of sustained, hybrid-gravity space habitation for all on its Pioneer and Voyager class stations," says Rhonda Stevenson, CEO of Orbital Assembly. "We are focused on becoming one of the world’s most extensive space development companies working together with our world-class hardware vendors and partners. OA has the technology and capabilities to build versatile space structures using commercial off the shelf materials at a significantly lower cost by building in space rather than on earth and transporting into orbit.”
 
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November 2022 - threads of freeorder
 
firefoxes - hiroshige
New Year's Eve Foxfires at the Changing Tree, Ōji — Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art
Yukichi Fukuzawa and The Making of the Modern World by Alan Macfarlane
The New World of the Gothic Fox by Claudio Véliz
University of California or Amazon Books
 
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U.K. Parliament: Introduction of Lord Roberts of Belgravia
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“Andrew Roberts, having been created Baron Roberts of Belgravia, of Belgravia in the City of Westminster, was introduced and took the oath, supported by Baroness Finn and Lord Godson, and signed an undertaking to abide by the Code of Conduct.” —Hansard’s reports •••
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Video ••• [parliamentlive.tv] from 14:38:17 to 14:41:10
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Andrew Robert’s website •••
 
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Michael Strong wrote (on LinkedIn):
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Socratic questioning is corrosive…
It’s why Socrates was sentenced to death.
Corrosive to traditions that have become sacred cows.
It forces conformists to confront why they believe what they believe.
That’s uncomfortable.
But, that confrontation is the bedrock of western civilization.
All innovation starts with someone thinking for themselves.
Having a different thought than what is accepted.
This is part of why I’m passionate about freedom of speech.
If we don’t allow and support independent thought…
We will not continue to be an innovative society.
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Michael’s work:
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Strong's Law:
Properly structured free enterprise always results over time in higher quality, lower cost, and more customized products and services.  This principle applies just as forcefully to the entrepreneurial supply of law, governance, community, housing, education, health care, and other environments supportive of happiness, and well being as it does to technology. Our world suffers because we have not allowed entrepreneurial initiative to fully address the most important issues facing humanity.
Founder, The Academy of Thought and Industry (campuses in SF, NYC, Austin, and St. Louis)
Lead Author, Be the Solution:  How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World's Problems
Author, The Habit of Thought:  From Socratic Seminars to Socratic Practice
Co-Founder Moreno Valley High School (ranked the 36th best public high school in 2006).
Co-Founder, Conscious Capitalism, Inc.
TEDx UChicago, "The Creation of Conscious Culture through Educational Innovation"
TEDx GrandRapids, "Innovate:  Experience"
TEDx UFM, "Socratic Practice as Disruptive Technology"
Voice & Exit, "Startup Cities"
Blog:  "The Purpose of Education is Happiness and Well-Being for All"
 
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Emilio Pacheco: “The Value of Gratitude: Among the seven Christian virtues, theologians may have forgotten one of the most important ones: gratitude.” •••
 
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Job Creators Network (JCN) ••• “Earlier this year as part of our Rock the Woke campaign, we placed a billboard in the heart of New York City’s Time Square calling out Disney’s decision to get involved in political and cultural debates which have nothing to do with their business.”
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“Disney Gives Chapek the Boot, Iger Returns to Change Course; Job Creators Network Reacts” ••• 21 Nov 2022
 
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Pat Wagner will speak at Liberty on the Rocks, Denver, 7 December
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Come check out our last event of the year! Long time LOTR member and Liberty OG Pat Wagner will be talking about Big Ideas from Liberty-Leaning Thinkers that can apply to everyday situations. An engineer, a philosopher, a psychiatrist, and a chemist, at first glance, are unlikely contributors to the libertarian/anarchist movements, but all of them have contributed ideas to liberty that help us better understand how to employ these strategies in our daily life.
This will also be a Christmas party! So bring your ugly sweaters and any Christmas drinks or food you want for our last event of the year!
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Details: https://www.meetup.com/Liberty-on-the-Rocks-Denver/events/289915947
 
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Austrian Economics Center ••• and Hayek Institut •••
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The Hayek Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Emilio Pacheco from Liberty Fund ••• for his defense and promotion of liberty and education •••
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Emilio Pacheco on the Pursuit of Learning •••
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“The Discovery of Hayek’s Thought: Since I received the news of this award, I have been piecing together the twisting and improbable road that brought me to Vienna tonight.”
 
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Warehouses of goods for the building of Freeorder, now exist, scattered all over the world … what will the supply chains look like when everyone is using these goods? Not only in academic conferences … but in workshops and farms everywhere. Where will the capital come from to support this rich supply of goods of thought and spirit underlying all civilization?
 
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Astroscale is interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroscale ~thanks to Kim Long and Jim Bennett
 
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Immortal Data Systems ••• — how to know what has happened to your space vehicle or habitat ~thanks to Jim Bennett
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“Reconfigurable distributed black-box modules, each the size of a cell phone, to communicate among one another and preserve and secure data including a voice from the cockpit, vehicle mechanics, skin materials, and engine system health via mission-oriented sensors. Rescue operators respond to the onboard  GPS sensor that will gather position information after a catastrophic incident, providing investigators information to determine cause and liability.” —3
 
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A review of The End of Tsarist Russia: The March to World War I and Revolution by Dominic Lieven
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“Just why did Russia’s leaders end up in a war almost none of them wanted?” … “… Lieven presents a much more banal culprit few scholars have ever suspected: civil society.” … “It may seem surprising that this should have led to a devastating war that claimed millions of Russian lives and ended in an unspeakably violent revolution that claimed millions more. In our relentlessly liberal age, one usually expects that broadening civil society will automatically engender more responsible government. In a mournful irony, Lieven’s study proves that Russia’s war fever was not inflamed by the expected cadre of reactionary lunatic warmongers, but rather by two phenomena that students of modernity are practically inoculated to trust: the independent media and the allied professional meritocracy. Yet at every step in the years leading up to 1914, many of their representatives shamelessly championed war over peace, nationalism over internationalism, and conflict over conciliation.” — “Officers & Gentlemen” ••• by Paul du Quenoy ••• published in The New Criterion ••• September 2016
 
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Free Speech Conference ••• November 2022, sponsored by the Classical Liberalism Initiative ••• at Stanford Graduate School of Business ••• ~thanks to Linda Sweeney, Alumni and Donors Unite •••
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“Academic freedom, open inquiry, and freedom of speech are under threat as they have not been for decades. Visibly, academics are “canceled,” fired, or subject to lengthy disciplinary proceedings in response to academic writing or public engagement. Less visibly, funding agencies, university bureaucracies, hiring procedures, promotion committees, professional organizations, and journals censor some kinds of research or demand adherence to political causes. Many parts of universities have become politicized or have turned into ideological monocultures, excluding people, ideas, or kinds of work that challenge their orthodoxy. Younger researchers are afraid to speak and write and don’t investigate promising ideas that they fear will endanger their careers. 
“The two-day Academic Freedom Conference, arranged by the organizing committee, aims to identify ways to restore academic freedom, open inquiry, and freedom of speech and expression on campus and in the larger culture and restore the open debate required for new knowledge to flourish. The conference will focus on the organizational structures leading to censorship and stifling debate and how to repair them.”
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Organizers and speakers at this conference were severely criticized for proposing to talk about free speech in a way some thought should be forbidden. Nevertheless, and surprisingly, the University did not cancel the event. Congratulations, Stanford!
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Speakers (partial list): Scott Atlas, Jonathan Haidt, Peter Thiel, Tyler Cowen, Niall Ferguson
 
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Cameo Shooting and Education Complex ••• Grand Junction, Colorado — pistol targets at ranges of 1,000 to 2,000 yards. ~thanks to Lara Ewing Himber
 
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Global Walkout ••• organized by Reignite Freedom ••• — might be effective - I signed up to see what happens next. Found by following a clue ••• from Steve Kirsch ••• -ls
 
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“Truth is what remains after failure to understand. Mass failure to understand can save the world.” —a groundskeeper at Lake Perinel
 
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Michael Yon ••• “My Simple View on Trump: If Trump will run on a platform of first destroying WEF, then arresting himself for vax-crimes — let’s roll!” —on his Locals channel •••
 
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Edward Dowd’s investigation of the Covid & Vaccine situation.
Interview with Ed Dowd, from Session 93 of the Corona Investigative Committee:
https://odysee.com/@Corona-Investigative-Committee:5/Session-93-Edward-Dowd:6
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The Corona Investigative Committee:
https://corona-investigative-committee.com
Totality of Evidence:
https://totalityofevidence.com/edward-dowd/
Dowd’s website, started in September 2022:
https://www.theyliedpeopledied.com
Dowd’s book, available December 13, 2022 (Kindle version available now):
https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1510776397
 
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‘The “Stochastic Terror” Lie ••• — The Left’s latest gambit for suppressing speech is built on preposterous grounds’ by Christopher F. Rufo ••• published in City Journal ••• November 14, 2022
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Pseudo-scientific mask (stochastic) used to justify speech suppression.
 
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Bach - Aria mit 30 Veränderungen Goldberg Variations BWV 988 - Rondeau | Netherlands Bach Society
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AtOPiG5jyk&t=397s
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Interview with harpsichordist Jean Rondeau on the 'Goldberg Variations’: https://youtu.be/RuV8J3hkjKc
 
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Vitaliy Katsenelson on classical music and value investing
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https://myfavoriteclassical.com
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https://contrarianedge.com
 
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Soviet Union (USSR) a joke:
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Commissar (c) visits Farmer (f)
c: How’s the wheat?
f: The wheat reaches to Siberia!
c: How are the potatoes?
f: The potatoes are stacked to the foot of God!
c: This is the Soviet Union. There is no God.
f: That’s ok. There are no potatoes.
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Told by Michael Malice in discussion ••• [YouTube, at 02:50] with James O’Keefe.
 
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Interviews on mRNA vaccines - worth a hearing - by Maajid Nawaz ••• [Newsweek] on Odysee •••
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“In this special episode, we speak to an inventor of the mRNA jab technology who has nine patents in the field, the former US Department of Defence contracted scientist and now whistleblower Dr Robert Malone about information warfare and Covid propaganda.” ••• [Odysee]
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“We're honored to speak for a second time to Scientist, Dr Mike Yeadon, author of The Covid Lies and former global Head of Respiratory Diseases at Pfizer. Dr Yeadon, an expert in his field, has been censored and smeared by the same entities that dare not debate him.” ••• [Odysee]
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Both Malone and Yeadon are mRNA vaccine deniers, critics who have found things worth questioning, and who are attacked by people who fear the questions.
 
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Joe Rogan interviews Robert W. Malone ••• [Bitchute] about the dangers of the MRNA vaccines and the censorship that tried to prevent him from warning the world about it. [that has failed -ls]
 
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“Suggestions for a New Party of the Right” ••• by Sean Gabb ••• published by libertarianism.uk
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“We need a new party of the right. We need a party that really is committed to restoring us as the free citizens of our own independent country. The Conservatives are not this. The Conservatives will not and probably cannot be this. We must do the job ourselves.” … “The purpose of a new party of the right is not to advertise any degree of sectarian ideological purity, but to save England from authoritarian leftism.” —S. Gabb
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vAnglosphere
 
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Jeremey Shearmur writes: Last year, I gave a series of 22 lectures on Popper and critical rationalism ••• [YouTube] 
 
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“We Won’t Forget: They celebrated our deaths and danced on our graves; We WON’T celebrate your deaths, we WON’T wish harm on you, but we WON’T forget that you did.” —Robert W. Malone, in “The Dilemma of the Unvaccinated” •••
 
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We Can and Will Survive ••• published by Brownstone Institute •••
 
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Catherine and Gregg released from prison — Catherine’s statement:
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“By order of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips have been ordered RELEASED from custody, reversing the lower court decision which led to their detention and imprisonment for six days.” ••• [The Conservative Treehouse, 7 Nov 2022]
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From Catherine:
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Those who thought that imprisoning Gregg and I would
weaken our resolve have gravely miscalculated. It is
stronger than ever.
The right to free and fair elections without interference
is more important than our own discomforts and even
this detention, now reversed by a higher court.
We are profoundly grateful for that. We will continue to
protect and defend those who do the vital work of
election integrity, and we will make sure that their
findings become a matter of public record.
 
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Statement from True the Vote on the Imprisonment of Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips:
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“True the Vote calls for the immediate release of founder Catherine Engelbrecht and contractor Gregg Phillips, who were jailed for contempt October 31st for refusing to deliver to Konnech the name of the third party who was present at a presentation of evidence of Konnech’s wrongdoing. This evidence was initially provided to the Federal Bureau of Investigations in Q1 of 2021. In Q3 2022 information was provided to the LA District Attorney’s office in their investigation of Konnech, which resulted in the arrest of CEO Eugene Yu. True the Vote attorneys are expediting an appeal seeking to have Engelbrecht and Phillips released.
“Catherine Engelbrecht said, “Trust, honesty, and respect will always be our highest values, regarding both our work and our lives. As a result, we will be held in jail until we agree to give up the name of a person we believe was not covered under the terms of the judge’s TRO. We ask that you keep us in your prayers. Thank you to those who continue supporting and believing in us and our mission to make elections safe for all parties and for all people.”
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The above was the leading content of the True the Vote ••• website on 7 Nov 2022.
 
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The story ••• of Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips of True the Vote ••• as told on the Substack of The American Landscape ••• on November 3, 2022
 
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“War on Ivermectin: The Medicine that Saved Millions and Could Have Ended the COVID Pandemic” ••• [Amazon] by Dr. Pierre Kory, publication date January 10, 2023
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Pierre Kory’s Substack •••
 
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https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/did-biden-break-the-strategic-petroleum-reserve
 
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October 2022 - threads of freeorder
 
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Seed Savers Exchange •••
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An Explorers Foundation investment ••• made in 2007.
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The 42nd Annual Seed Savers Exchange Conference •••
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“Enjoy recordings from the 42nd Annual Conference. Programming includes keynote speakers, stewardship stories from longtime seed savers, a virtual gator tour of Heritage Farm, and sessions on seed and land access, soil health, and how to start seed saving.”
 
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The conservation, study and use of old seeds ••• found on BASF’s website •••
 
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“When BASF dies, Europe dies” ••• Michael Yon •••
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“This is the biggest, most consequential news on Earth today, yet only a tiny handful of people see it.” — Michael Yon, 28 Oct 2022. Why would Michael Yon say this?
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“Cutting and burning European forests” ••• Michael Yon, 04 October 2022
 
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It’s time for authoritarians to apologize ••• by Jeffrey A. Tucker
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The response to what they have done, growing fast now, will reshape much of the world.
 
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Lara Logan ••• investigative journalist, interviewed ••• by Diamond and Silk ••• Logan appears about 12 minutes into the program.
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Logan’s current work pursues the question: What is happening to the missing children? Many thousand disappear every year without a trace. Her investigation goes to dangerous places.
 
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A new Biography of F. A. Hayek — a master of freeorder (named in many ways)
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo136253636.html
Hayek: A Life, 1899–1950
Bruce Caldwell and Hansjoerg Klausinger
The definitive account of the distinguished economist’s formative years.
Few twentieth-century figures have been lionized and vilified in such equal measure as Friedrich Hayek—economist, social theorist, leader of the Austrian school of economics, and champion of classical liberalism. Hayek’s erudite arguments in support of individualism and the market economy have attracted a devout following, including many at the levers of power in business and government. Critics, meanwhile, cast Hayek as the intellectual forefather of “neoliberalism” and of all the evils they associate with that pernicious doctrine. 
In Hayek: A Life, historians of economics Bruce Caldwell and Hansjörg Klausinger draw on never-before-seen archival and family material to produce an authoritative account of the influential economist’s first five decades. This includes portrayals of his early career in Vienna; his relationships in London and Cambridge; his family disputes; and definitive accounts of the creation of The Road to Serfdom and of the founding meeting of the Mont Pèlerin Society. 
A landmark work of history and biography, Hayek: A Life is a major contribution both to our cultural accounting of a towering figure and to intellectual history itself. 
824 pages | 23 halftones | 6 x 9 | © 2022
 
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The Mont Pelerin Society: A Great Council, first meeting 1947, list of participants
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https://explorersfoundation.org/glyphery/35.html
 
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Herland Forest •••
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“The Herland Forest Natural Burial Cemetery is a non-profit cemetery dedicated to facilitating an individual’s return to the circle of life. This permaculture forest, located on the eastern edge of the Cascadian wilderness, combines the native pine, fir and oak with non-native varieties such as chestnut and walnut, ginko and cherry, apple and hazelnut, to create a living sanctuary that supports the birds, bees, animals, and people who make the forest their home.”
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Herland Forest was begun by Walt Patrick and his friends from the Windward community project, one of the early investments ••• (July 2007) of Explorers Foundation.
 
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One of the world’s top misinformation spreaders attempts to defend himself ••• clearly futile, we don’t need to listen.
 
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N.S. Lyons, about Freeorder, but without the word: “… an argument for why wokeness could have its institutional power and vice-like grip over society broadly smashed within a decade.” —published in “Diagnosing Our Decay | An interview with N.S. Lyons” ••• 16 Oct 22, to be found in Substack: Ideas Sleep Furiously •••
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‘I think that would essentially require two things to happen at once, one bottom up and the other top down. From the bottom there would need to arise a distinct counter-culture that is explicitly anti-woke, and which – just as importantly – offers an alternative, manifestly superior, happier, and more meaningful way of life to that of the woke cult. This counter-culture would have to succeed in becoming the cool and attractive new “transgressive” mode of rebellion among younger generations. And, critically, this counter-culture would have to strongly appeal to the educated elite, not just function as an outgrowth of populism. Because what this counter-culture would have the greatest potential to accomplish is to essentially foster the growth of a new counter-elite within the woke’s own class base. I actually think this is already happening, which I consider rare cause for a little hope.’
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A perfect description of the emergence of Freeorder. -ls
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There was, and persists, an age of Enlightenment. It has given us a treasure of catalytic substance. Now, artists and entrepreneurs will use those catalysts to produce Emergence.
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The whole of this interview is brilliant and important. It should be read with a mind open more than possible if focused exclusively on freeorder. Read as if you are an omnivorous explorer to whom all outcomes are equal. Such bi-modal reading: with focus on emergence of freeorder and then without should produce interesting fracture zones where new discovery is possible.
 
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Suppression of Dissent ••• devoted to those who speak out for truth and are suppressed.
 
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The Bourke Engine by Sky Huddleston •••
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“The Bourke Engine is the most important development in the field of gasoline-powered engines and it was invented back in the 1920s by Russell Bourke! With only 2 moving parts and a Scotch Yoke, which is the most effective way to turn reciprocating motion into rotary, it delivers more horsepower per pound than any other engine.”
 
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“atma.io connected product cloud by Avery Dennison: A platform that unlocks the power of connected products by assigning unique digital IDs to everyday items, providing unparalleled end-to-end transparency by tracking, storing and managing all the events associated with each individual product — from source to consumer and beyond to enable circularity.” ••• —this is posted because of the technology for supply chain management, not because of ESG applications. -ls
 
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DIFC Courts Launches Tejouri, the Global Digital Vault Built on Hedera
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https://www.hbarfoundation.org/blog-post/difc-courts-launches-tijouri-the-global-digital-vault-built-on-hedera
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About the DIFC, by Michael Strong & Robert Himber: "The Legal Autonomy of the Dubai International Financial Centre: A Scaleable Strategy for Global Free Market Reforms" — Michael Strong has been a pioneer in the world of free zone development.
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https://www.academia.edu/en/10187154/The_Legal_Autonomy_of_the_Dubai_International_Financial_Centre_A_Scaleable_Strategy_for_Global_Free_Market_Reforms
 
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Polina Nazaykinskaya ••• How I'm Shaping Culture ••• Paul & Daisy Soros Foundation •••
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Polina Nazaykinskaya Symphony 1, April Song ••• [Epoch Times]
 
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Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine: “Without a hearing, the Board ordered her license immediately suspended, demanded a neuropsychological evaluation and implied that she was mentally impaired or a substance abuser and incompetent to practice medicine.” The Board’s action was in response to Nass’ prescriptions of hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, and to her criticism of the policy of withholding early treatment for Covid.
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Hearing, 11 Oct 22, 1 pm EST: “Nass’s testifying experts will include Professor Emeritus in Epidemiology at Yale Harvey Risch, M.D., Ph.D., pulmonary and critical care specialist Paul Marik, M.D., inventor of mRNA vaccine technology Robert Malone, M.D., intensive care specialist Pierre Kory, M.D. and surgeon Steven Katsis, M.D. of the Oklahoma Medical Board.” — https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/maine-medical-board-meryl-nass-m-d-official-hearing
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Tune in to hear some of the world’s greatest and most heroic doctors testify for Dr. Nass.
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For details on Stalin’s show trials see the work of Max Eastman and Alexandr Solzhenitsyn.
 
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Laurie Olin ••• a great landscape architect (and artist).
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“Frederick Law Olmsted’s Triumph: Central Park is not only a shining example of outdoor design, but also one of the greatest works of American art” ••• in WSJ (subscription) ~thanks Lara
 
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Vitamin D & Covid, Robert W. Malone: “The pharmaceutical/biodefense/medical complex, working together with corporate media, has succeeded in putting vitamin D in a bad light through their own propaganda and misinformation campaigns.” — https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/well-being-disinformation-assault
 
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"Meno" is a short dialogue of Plato's in which Socrates gets from an untutored boy what he expects to find — but to get it he must ask for it, because the boy does not know it is in him to be found. This is one of the great lessons in intentional civilization building.
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In this dialogue Socrates draws a mathematical proof out of a young man who does not know he knows it: http://www.classicallibrary.org/plato/dialogues/10_meno.htm
 
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What If They Threw a Pandemic & Nobody Came? Sending an SOS to the World — by Margaret Anna Alice, via Robert W. Malone’s Substack — this is important enough to repeat -ls
 
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September 2022 - threads of freeorder
 
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What If They Threw a Pandemic & Nobody Came? Sending an SOS to the World — by Margaret Anna Alice, via Robert W. Maline’s Substack — this is important -ls
 
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Praxis: The practical alternative to college (and mounds of debt). Praxis is ideal for talented and motivated recent high school graduates, college drop-outs, and early career professionals in the United States. It can be completed as an alternative to college, graduate programs, or trade school. —from the Praxis website: https://discoverpraxis.com
 
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“My hope, however futile, is to awaken the sleeping to reason and to equip the awake with the knowledge and tools needed to understand and defend anti-authoritarian positions.” —Margaret Anna Alice, a writer worth knowing ••• [substack]
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“Letter to Alex Berenson on World Ivermectin Day” •••
 
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Force: What it means to Push and Pull, Slip and Grip, Start and Stop ••• by Henry Petroski, author of To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design •••
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A conversation with Henry Petroski •••
 
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Edward Dowd’s contribution to the history of Covid vaccinations •••
 
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“A Rebuttal to California’s Legislative War on Doctors” ••• Pierre Kory
 
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Overheard long ago, in the USSR: “We must confiscate and forbid typewriters! People are making copies of Aleksandr’s Gulag!”
 
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Salman Rushdie, David Marks, and Robert W. Malone on Freedom of Expression
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“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.” —Salman Rushdie, quoted by David Marks, in “Who Will Defend Freedom of Speech? ••• published in Robert W. Malone’s Substack
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“With the hope that life remains stable, people often reject divergent ideas and blindly trust dictates. A prescribed, familiar authority appears less frightening than the risk of considering new concepts. This inclination towards security is often abused by authoritarian forces to encourage repression, limiting opposition and restricting debate.” —David Marks
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Inscribed in stone above the entry hall of the Chicago Tribune.
All the inscriptions are recorded here ••• (ef glyph 223)
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Robert W. Malone on “Post-Fascist” Italy
"What does Post-Fascist even mean? More psyops from corporate media. Sounds to me like an acknowledgment that Italy is currently controlled by Fascists (which would essentially be true - an alliance between WEF/EU and corporations currently controls Italy). Giorgia Meloni's Brothers of Italy Party is set to displace them, so I guess that would make the next government "post-fascist"? —R.W. Malone
 
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Giorgia Meloni quotes G.K. Chesterton: “Fires will be kindled to testify that two and two make four. Swords will be drawn to prove that leaves are green in summer.” —source of Chesterton quotation not yet found
 
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Catawba Corporation’s new “Digital Economic Zone: A Jurisdiction Built for the Digital
Assets Industries” (Web3.0) •••
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“A Digital Economic Zone (DEZ) is a type of Special Economic Zone focused on digital industries. Special Zones are small geographic areas with different legal, regulatory, and often tax policies than their host Nations. Digital Special Zones are unique because their regulations are tailored to digital, software, internet, and digital asset industries.” —Catawba website
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US Tribal Nation-Backed Economic Zone Passes Rules Defining Digital Assets ••• The Catawba Digital Economic Zone in South Carolina hopes to attract crypto companies to remotely incorporate under its laws. By Sandali Handagama, Jul 13, 2022
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Joseph McKinny ••• [facebook] — the architect of the Catawba Digital Zone, working with Seaphia •••
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https://www.catawba.com/about-the-nation
 
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Quotations presented on Blue Horizons’ Substack badcatitude, found in Meryl's COVID Newsletter
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Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.'s Framework Convention on Climate Change: "This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution."
German economist and IPCC official Ottmar Edenhofer in an interview to Neue Zürcher Zeitung: “One must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore.” 
Opening remarks offered by Maurice Strong, who organized the first U.N. Earth Climate Summit (1992) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: “We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrialized civilization to collapse. Isn’t it our responsibility to bring this about?”
Former U.S. Senator Timothy Wirth, then representing Clinton-Gore administration as U.S Undersecretary of State for global issues, addressing Rio Climate Summit audience: “We have got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.” (Wirth went on to oversee a UN Foundation that lobbies for hundreds of billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to help underdeveloped countries fight climate change.)
Also speaking at the Rio conference, Deputy Assistant of State Richard Benedick said: “A global warming treaty [Kyoto] must be implemented even if there is no scientific evidence to back the [enhanced] greenhouse effect.”
In 1988, former Canadian Minister of the Environment Christine Stewart told editors and reporters of the Calgary Herald: “No matter if the science of global warming is all phony…climate change [provides] the greatest opportunity to bring about justice and equality in the world.”
In 1996, former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev emphasized the importance of using climate alarmism to advance political objectives: “The threat of environmental crisis will be the international disaster key to unlock the New World Order.”
Speaking at the 2000 UN Conference on Climate Change in the Hague, former President Jacques Chirac of France explained why the IPCC’s climate initiative supported a key Western European Kyoto Protocol objective: “For the first time, humanity is instituting a genuine instrument of global governance, one that should find a place within the World Environmental Organization which France and the European Union would like to see established.”
 
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Proposing a ‘Coast Guard’ for Space ••• James C. Bennett, published in The New Atlantis, 2011
 
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Three articles by James C. Bennett, published in Hungarian Review •••
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One of them: “America, England, Europe – Why Do We Differ?” •••
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“JAMES C. BENNETT is a writer and entrepreneur. He was cofounder of two private space transportation companies and other technology ventures. He has written extensively on technology, culture, and society. He is the author of The Anglosphere Challenge (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004), The Third Anglosphere Century (Heritage Foundation, 2007), a former columnist for United Press International, and has contributed to The New Criterion, National Review, The National Interest, The New Atlantis, National Post (Canada) and The Daily Telegraph (London). His most recent book is America 3.0: Rebooting American Prosperity in the 21st Century – Why America’s Best Days Are Yet To Come (Encounter Books, 2013).”
 
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Culture, matters - not only economics ••• Virginia Postrel
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“But culture is not a tool. It is not a machine. It is an emergent order, as complex, dynamic, and intellectually interesting as the economy—and thoroughly entangled with it.”
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https://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2018/Postrelculture.html
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Postrel’s The Fabric of Civilization ••• published 2022
 
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“Making Concept Art for Startup Cities with AI ••• Prompt hacking DALL-E to create cityscapes from music genres, philosophers, novelists, corporate brands, and other wild aesthetics.” —zach.dev
 
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BqETH: Decentralized Crypto Inheritance: A trustless mechanism to bequeath crypto
 
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Bret Weinstein: “Seeking truth with an evolutionary toolkit in a complex world.” & “Evolutionary Theorist + Professor in Exile” : https://www.bretweinstein.net (“Audacity, Tenacity, Veracity”)
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A conversion between evolutionary biologist, Bret Weinstein, and Steve Patterson
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bret-weinstein-darkhorse-podcast/id1471581521
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~thanks to Lara Ewing Himber for leading me to this fascinating conversation.
 
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Quotation from Thomas Sowell found retweeted by Steve Patterson
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“The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves. That enables them to act as if there were no price, even when there are ruinous prices paid by others.”
 
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Of Governments: “There is a pervasive bias in favour of intervention, because the bureaucratic managerial machine is like a squid with a thousand tentacles, and it is by finding problems and purporting to solve them, that it gains access to new territories.” —eugyppius, Substack post •••
 
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August 2022 - threads of freeorder
 
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Institute for Justice •••
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“On June 22, for the first time in history, a federal court awarded damages against a municipality as compensation for the intentional destruction of private property by the city’s police.” •••
 
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Singapore Police Force, Gurkha Contingent •••
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Colonel Cross of the Gurkhas ••• [Atlantic, 2006]
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Gurkhas at War: The Gurkha Experience in their Own Words - 1939 to the Present ••• by Col. John Cross
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Wizards cast from a Foxglove plant by David Hock, when he worked as Argentum & Iron
 
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A Perfect Graphic: Wrong & Right Enemy of Freeorder
 
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Applied Economics for Africa ••• [complete book, pdf] by George B.N. Ayittey, PhD — “This book demonstrates that the key to Africa’s development lies in building upon “its own indigenous heritage of participatory democracy based upon consensus (under the chiefs), free village markets, and free enterprise.” —Foreword, by Thomas J. Sargent, Professor of Economics and Business at New York University, Nobel Prize Laureate in Economic Sciences
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Ayittey’s great Cheetah speech:
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https://www.ted.com/talks/george_ayittey_africa_s_cheetahs_versus_hippos
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“The Dangerous Economics of George Ayittey” ••• by Zachery Caceres
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‘His crime is a simple sentence: “Africa is poor because she is not free.’ —Caceres
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In Memorium, Dr. George Ayittey ••• —Atlas Network •••
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“Dr. Ayittey distinguished himself as an Africanist per-excellence and one of the preeminent intellectuals of his generation. He belonged to a cohort of African scholars who refuse to succumb to the intimidation of dictators nor be bought to promote their tyrannical agenda.”
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‘The Global Disinformation Campaign Against Ivermectin - The "Fix" at the WHO’, Part 1:
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“The biggest battle in the war on ivermectin was won by Pharma at the WHO and has since caused millions of preventable deaths. I had a front row seat to how it all unfolded.” —Dr. Pierre Kory
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https://pierrekory.substack.com/p/the-global-disinformation-campaign-a3c
 
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Dr. Pierre Kory ••• [substack] on the importance of ivermectin; its use in India
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The Miracle Not-Heard Around The World: The Success of Uttar Pradesh - Part 1 •••
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“The north Indian state of 231 million people eradicated COVID with an ivermectin treatment program, representing one of the greatest public health achievements in history. It was kept a global secret.”
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The Miracle Not-Heard Around The World: The Success of Uttar Pradesh - Part 2 •••
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“In Part 1 of this post on Uttar Pradesh (UP), I introduced the people responsible for UP’s “Test, Track, and Treat” program and reviewed its evolution into the most pragmatic, comprehensive, and successful health system response to COVID in the world.”
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The Miracle Not-Heard Around The World: The Success of Uttar Pradesh - Part 3 •••
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“In Part 1 and Part 2, I laid out the structure, function, and escalation of Uttar Pradesh’s (UP) “Test, Track, and Treat”(TTT) Program, which achieved what was essentially a zero infection rate across the state by September of 2021. In this post, I present what was happening at the Federal level in India during the time that UP was eradicating COVID.”
 
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Hint: If you are saying something true, but simple, and are being scoffed at and ignored, try saying the same thing using mathematics to make it complex and difficult to understand. Your idea will then win attention and you will be respected. —an insight from Laurence B. Siegel’s review ••• of Nicholas Taleb’s analysis of fragility:
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‘Taleb presents a simple rule of thumb for assessing the health of a company facing volatile conditions. If sales increase 10%, will profits increase less than they would decrease if sales drop 10%? If so, that company is fragile and will not withstand much volatility. Its problems will compound downward in a death spiral, which is what happened to Fannie Mae.
‘But Taleb had difficulty getting his measure used. “It looked simple, too simple, so the initial reaction from 'experts' was that it was 'trivial.'” For fun, Taleb later joined with the mathematicians Raphael Douady and Bruno Dupire to express “this simple idea using the most opaque mathematical derivations, with incomprehensible theorems that would take half a day (for a professional) to understand.” Then, he says, experts took him seriously.’
 
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Vera Sharav “Unless All of Us Resist, Never Again is Now” ••• [text] – Full Speech – Nuremberg, August 20, 2022
 
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Jeffrey A. Tucker on the abolition of the administrative state •••
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Conclusion: “There needs to be a to-be-abolished list and any federal government institution with the word agency, department, or bureau needs to be on it. The last few years have shown us the power of these institutions and the devastation they can cause. The only sure way of preventing it from happening again is to put a hard stop on all the bureaucracies that caused our suffering. Society itself, which is smarter than bureaucracy, can manage the rest.”
 
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Presidential Executive Order 14067 ••• about digital asset regulation — scan this in context of Jeffrey A. Tucker’s article, linked above.
 
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Próspera ••• — a special zone growing on the island of Roatán off the coast of Honduras
 
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World Free Zones Organization •••
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Mission of World Free Zones: To bring together free zones from all over the world and promote their positive impacts by providing guidance, knowledge and services to our members, so as to enhance free zones’ contribution in the economic prosperity and social development of the host country.
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Vision of World Free Zones: To have free zones recognized globally as a tool for development, economic prosperity and socio-economic sustainability.
 
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From Zach Caceres, on Startup Cities ••• 5 Aug 2022
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Startup Cities reader Zane Austen has made a 12,000 page compendium of Lee Kuan Yew’s words.
The collection is brilliant, but many of the documents were old and not formatted for search. I worked with Zane to apply some OCR technology to make the archive fully searchable. So here it is: a new and improved motherlode archive on Lee Kuan Yew’s career. All credit goes to Zane.
https://www.startupcities.com/p/lee-kuan-yew-urbanist
https://www.zaneausten.com/p/lky-anthology
Zach Caceres: https://www.startupcities.com
 
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May Ranch ••• Lamar, Colorado — a story of collaborative land & water conservation
 
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A letter to Dr. Margaret Gale-Rowe, Public Health Canada, from Steve Kirsch, one of the world’s leading misinformation spreaders, in which Kirsch pleads with Dr. Gale-Rowe to “stop me” and offers an opportunity for her to do so in view of the whole world.
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https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/my-email-to-dr-margaret-gale-rowe
 
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Epigenetics, biological and social.
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Biological: A clear explanation, illustrated by dynamic drawing, Garvan Institute, Australia:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMT6oRYgkTk
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Social: The America people have good DNA that is not being supplied with the nutrients to support health sustaining expression. Fear of allowing oneself to ask socially awkward questions can be alleviated by proper nutrition, best ingested as stories.
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A rule: fear no askers of questions — welcome them — they open windows in closed places where disease flourishes.
 
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